Recruitment refers to the process of attracting, screening, selecting, and onboarding a qualified person for a job. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruitment
Depending on the size and culture of the organization recruitment may be undertaken in-house by managers, human resource generalists and / or recruitment specialists. Alternatively parts of all of the process might be undertaken by either public sector employment agencies, or commercial recruitment agencies, or specialist search consultancies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruitment Need of recruitment:
It is rare that a business of any size operates for long without having to recruit or remove employees. For example, consider why a business might need to recruit staff: * Business expansion * Existing employees leave: * Business needs employees with new skills * Business is relocating – and not all of existing workforce want to move to new location http://www.tutor2u.net/business/people/recruitment_selection_introduction.asp process: 1. Identification of vacancy:
It involves: * Reviewing what action to take when a role becomes vacant * Designing the role – Job Description and Person Specification * Authorization to recruit – the Staffing Request form
Ask Yourself: * Is the role really needed? * Is a like for like replacement required? * Is there an opportunity to consolidate? * Is there a development opportunity for existing staff as opposed to recruiting?
* The job description identifies the main responsibilities and tasks of the job * The person specification outlines the skills, experience and personal attributes required in order to do the job * For new roles, a job analysis is required. Gather information about the nature of the job. This means thinking not only about the content (ie tasks) making up the job, but also the job’s purpose, the outputs required by the job holder and how it fits into the organization’s